box of hearts

Chapter 25 Suo Nanzhi (6)
Qingtian thanked him with a smile, took it, but put it away, "Since the third master wants to hear something new, I will have the shamelessness to talk to the third master. It's nothing to put it bluntly, the business experience of Huaihua Hutong is just a fake affair. Pretending, trick calculations. For example, when meeting a stranger, you have to be coquettish first, bow your head and congratulate yourself—"Phoenix nods", smile with your teeth—"Present silver teeth", hold your chest and draw your waist——"Dedicate yourself to the saying", the corners of your eyes Tease love, gossiping and flirting. When a guest enters the door, there are "Eighteen Questions". One question after another is interlocking, and the details of the guest will be revealed in a blink of an eye. If the guest's family background is not mediocre, Just use the method of "dry fried turtle" or "three cold and one hot". "Dry fried soft-shelled turtle" is to ask the guest to wait for nothing, waiting for him to be boiled and helpless. "Three cold and one hot" means to treat the guest coldly three times I don't pay much attention to them, but the fourth time they are so enthusiastic that the guests don't know what to do and feel concerned. But if the visitor has a lot of money, he should stay as a long-term guest, and there are six ways of "crying, cutting, stabbing, burning, marrying to death" Needless to say, 'crying', 'cutting' means cutting hair as a gift, and 'thorning' means piercing both arms with flower needles, writing 'my husband and someone', and then paint it with ink, unless a special potion is used Washing, never fading. "Burning" means burning incense on the skin, and burning it on the chest is called "public heart wish", and the kindness is the most generous; "Lianqing left wish", "lianqing right wish", "share left wish", "share right wish" and so on. As for "marriage", it is not a real marriage, but just saying that you will not marry unless you are a king. Daomeng swears love and lectures, only coaxing guests to spread redemption money. 'Death' is not real death, it is still an empty promise to live and die for him. The soul-stirring affection is all just for deception The guests think that they treat him with special kindness, so they just spend money wholeheartedly. There is only one thing to say: this place only recognizes money, not people. It is to kill a man with a knife, and he will never stop until his blood is drained."

Qi She listened attentively, then clapped her palms and sighed: "It's hearty. If it were another woman, she would be coy and unable to speak."

Qingtian Kong looked at a certain place, with a smile on his lips, but there was a sea of ​​silence in his eyes, "If I still can't say anything to a man like San Ye who has seen everything in the world, after a while, how should I treat a 14-year-old man?" Can a young ignorant girl speak?"

Qi She stared at her for a moment, then suddenly moved his eyes, and turned his head towards Zhou Dun.Zhou Dun bowed immediately, "Yes." He smiled and called to the other end: "Ms. Muyun?"

"Huh? Oh, oh!" Mu Yun was delighted to hear this, and came to her senses, busy and blessed, and exited with Zhou Dun.

So there were only two people left facing each other, so quiet that the sound of the copper leak could be heard, one drop, then another.Qi She was still fiddling with the folding fan in his hand, and said with a relaxed smile, "Have you used all these methods before?"

Qingtian's expression remained unchanged, and he smiled frankly: "Except for 'stab' and 'burn', I have used them all, and the most common one is 'cry'."

"What kind of crying?"

"Whenever a guest wants to leave, he will cry and say: 'You are willing to leave me behind. Be merciful, you and I are just playing on occasion, why are you serious?" He replied, "Although there are many customers, only you know the pain and heat. I treat you sincerely. Even a stone can be covered with heat. You But to say such things so cruelly.' At this point, I have to shed a few more tears."

"This 'I need to shed a few more tears' is wonderful! What if I can't cry?"

"I dyed the handkerchief with ginger juice, and when I wiped the corners of my eyes, tears welled up."

Qi She was overjoyed, and stretched out his arms, "Your handkerchief? Bring me to see."

Qing Tian also smiled, his eyes flickered with a gloomy light, "I don't need that anymore, I can cry when I say so."

"Crying as soon as you say it? This is a real skill. How did you practice?"

"You don't need to practice. In the end, just thinking about anything is enough to cry for days and nights. What's the point of shedding a few tears?"

Her indifferent tone was like a gust of chilly wind, and without warning, Qi She's eyebrows were trembling.However, he smiled again after a while, and looked at her with surprise on his face, "This is weird, but I have never seen you shed a single tear."

Qingtian turned his face slightly, and looked straight, "Third Master wants to see me cry? That's very easy."

"Don't don't, don't, don't." Qi She slapped the fan into his palm, and waved it in his ear several times, "If you shed tears, I will be so distressed that I can promise you with my body and sacrifice my life." Consolation, it's a pity that I have a heart and you are ruthless right now, so I won't suffer from this bastard."

Qingtian really laughed at this moment, and looked at Qi She up and down, "The third master usually talks like this in the court?"

"That can't be done." Qi She cheerfully threw away the paper fan, pinched a carved plum ball from a silver plate and threw it into the mouth, his words were a little vague, "You guys are good at it, what matters is crying Just laughing, our profession is about being 'ast as a chicken'. No matter how happy or depressed you hear, it's just three words—'hmm', 'oh', 'ah', and at most three more words—— 'Got it', and then put on such a face." He brushed his sugar-stained hands carelessly on his clothes twice, twisting his face to face Qingtian.That is to say, Shi Shi's thick eyebrows are not raised, the corners of the mouth are slightly drooping, the dangerous and straight nose is like a pillar in an ancient temple, and the eyes are the skylights in front of the temple. It may have been shining with gold powder, but it has been covered with dust and cobwebs for thousands of years. It's cloudy and haunting, never seeing the world.

Qingtian turned his face away, and covered his mouth with a chuckle, "Sure enough, this is the first time I saw the third master, I have such a face, isn't it tiring to be so tense?"

"Not only tired!" With a bang, the temple collapsed and the ground shook. At the same time, shattered dust danced brilliantly in the sun. It was a sealed elf.He smiled like this, unrestrained, "There must be something wrong with being so tense all year round, so you have to find someone to talk and laugh, right? If you laugh all year round, you don't have to laugh in front of me. It's not that I don't want you to laugh , I mean, smile when you're really happy, don't smile when you're not happy, just hang your face with me, it's okay, we can all be at ease."

For a moment, Qingtian was speechless, and suddenly heard a "squeak", a small pet poked into the fluffy head from behind the curtain.

"Zai Yu!" Qi She laughed out loud, and patted his thigh with his hand, "Come, come, come to Third Grandpa."

The white cat approached obediently, jumped onto his lap, Qi She hugged it between his arms and stroked it from head to tail.The mandarin duck eyes, one blue and one green, blinked lazily, and he yawned, showing his pointed front teeth.

Qingtian turned his head and looked over, with a hint of loneliness in his smile, "My old customers who have been here for a long time, I have never paid any attention to them, and ran away as soon as I hugged them, but I am familiar with the third master, see you later It's really strange that they are all so affectionate."

Qi She only caressed the cat, her long and thin fingers came in and out of the smooth and smooth summer hair, familiar and natural, "I like cats the most, cats have always been cats, unlike humans, often not humans. Look, You're overthinking again, aren't you? I'm telling myself, don't worry about it." He raised his eyebrows sideways, and smiled at her, "Let's talk about something happy! How old were you when you were betrayed? came in?"

Qingtian laughed out loud with a "sigh", but looked at him slightly angrily.He chuckled: "It's really a happy thing for me, otherwise, I wouldn't have met you, would I?"

"It's all trivial. The third master won't be interested in hearing it."

"If I'm not interested in listening, I won't ask."

She looked down at her hands—the Danzhu ring on her hands, "I was five years old, and I remember the days very well. The day before, my mother specially celebrated my birthday for me to remind me that I am a rat. I was born on the second day of the twelfth lunar month. sent me here the other day.”

"Do you remember things from your childhood?"

She nodded, then shook her head again, "I remember vaguely, but after thinking about it carefully, I can't remember the shadow."

"Then where is the home and what is the last name?"

"My family is in Suzhou. It seems that the surname is Fang, or it may be Fang, or the characters like Huang and Wang are indistinguishable in the local dialect. Now I can't even speak the local accent, but I still remember a baby named 'Xiao' Nan'." She was referring to Su Bai.

"Xiaonan." Qi She smiled, as if caressing a cat with the palm of his hand, caressing these two words with his lips and tongue.

Qingtian's eyelashes fluttered heavily, "Father always calls me that. In my impression, my father is so tall, he is a person who is as tall as the sky. As soon as he lifts me, he lifts me on his shoulders, and I will ride on my father's body." Flying a kite on my shoulders. My father tied me a big colorful beauty kite and said: "Our little girl is a little beauty now, and when she grows up, she will be such a big beauty." I don't know what disease my father has, I just remember that the doctor came and went, and then white flags were hung everywhere in the house. I cried and looked for my father every day, and then my mother said that my father had gone to a far away place, and she took me to find it. I was very happy I sat on a boat with her for a long time, and finally came to Beijing..." The voice was as soft as a dream, but suddenly woke up from the dream, and the eyes still had a frightened look.She narrowed her eyes and smiled, "I'll say it or not. I said it. I'm sad, and the third master is also sad for me when he hears it. What a disappointment."

Fortunately, Zai Yu yelled twice, Qi She hurriedly changed the conversation, pretending to tease the cat, "What's the matter, Zai Yu, huh? What's your opinion? Oh, I'm hungry. Hey, look at this thing you've been thinking about all day. A little something, really promising. Mu Yun!"

Mu Yun came to the room and bowed twice, "What orders does the third master have?"

(End of this chapter)